January 2004 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Embarrassing details of an extensive scam being operated against left-wing
organisations surfaced in the Ukraine in mid-2003. At least twelve, possibly up
to twenty, small left groups, mainly in England and the United States, were
conned by an enterprising group of Ukrainian politicos pretending to be supporters
of each of these parties or their "internationals" setting up their Ukrainian
"sections".

José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera is a member of the Political Bureau of the
Communist Party of Cuba. This article first appeared in
Cuba Socialista, the theoretical and
political magazine of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.

Celia Hart is the daughter of two veterans of the Cuban revolution: Haydée
Santamaría, who participated in the July 26,1953, assault on the
Moncada Barracks, and Armando Hart, the former minister of culture. Reprinted
from Tricontinental Magazine.